Frida Kahlo: the power of self-portraiture in art

1. An introduction to Frida Kahlo: Hello guys. Welcome to this new powerhouse art history lesson. If you know how Frida Kahlo is, but know nothing about her. This class is for you. From her precarious health and controversial art to her tumultuous affair and Romans with the equity beta, we will learn why is it the chase now, one of the most recognized and important artists worldwide. Paulina, architect, an artist. And I invite you to follow me through my social media to get news on the latest class is published. Welcome, considering the project section. 2. Who is Frida?: Hi guys. Today we're going to talk about a unique singular character, Frida Kahlo, who he is today, without a doubt, the most recognized Mexican artist worldwide, to the point of becoming a pop icon of Mexican culture completely in the syllable from national identity. To say that Gillette, an unconventional life full of suffering, is a small thing marked by tragedy, but also overflowing with a tragic optimism that no other artists emulate throughout the post-revolutionary period. Exploring the context of her time with the vision that always seemed ahead of her time. Freedom was a strong voice and image in art and society dedicated to the representation of women in maturity. And always with the purpose of elevated Mexican identity. 3. Young Frida, passion and character: Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo Calderon was born on July sixth, 1907 in Mexico City, in the house that was owned by her parents since 1904, and is known today as the Blue House. Daughter of Wilhelm (Guillermo) Kahlo of Hungarian German descent, And Matilda Calderon, originally from Oaxaca Frida was the third of four daughters. In her childhood, the future artists lived in an environment of economic prosperity. The result of her father's exercise as a jeweler for the Mexican high society of the time and of his work as a photographer. However, after the end of Porfirio Diaz government, the family began to experience serious financial problems. Her two sisters, Matilde and Adriana, were the oldest, and Christina, the youngest, born when Frida was only 11 months old. At the age of six, Frida fell ill with polio, causing her right leg to be shorter. And although this was a source of ridicule from other kids, Frida would later recall that it was from that moment that she learned to laugh at herself. Of course, it was impossible for her to know at the time that the same condition was decisive in the deformation of her womb. And finally, in her inability to have children. Frida would be without a doubt, her father's favorite, who would push her to be a restless and tenacious student at the National preparatory school. She was about 17 years old in these family photographs taken by her father around the year 1924, each member of the family has a thoughtful pose, but it is Frida who captures our attention with her direct and defiant gaze towards the camera, dressed in shirt, tie and a three-piece suit. Already making fun of conventions and notions of gender. Then tragedy strikes. At the age of 18 on September 17th, 1925, Frida is part of a tragic accident when the bus in which she was traveling was hit by a tram. The consequences for her were serious. Her spine was fractured in three parts, also suffering fractures in two ribs, clavicles, and pelvis. Her right leg was broken in 11 parts. She was also injured by a handrail passing through her left hip, crossing her body until it exited through the vagina. These ailments, physical, mental, emotional, psychological, will undoubtedly haunt her for the rest of her life. And although she would represent the moment from memory on more than one occasion, these will be her first and crudest drawing of what she could remember. In the month of initial recovery, Frida would turn into an intense inner world where she would discover art as a faithful companion within her inmobility, filing diaries with thoughts, colors, and intimate images full of literary nuances. It is in these times where her destiny turns upside down and Frida stops thinking about studying medicine to find a definitive refuge in art. In these pages, we still hear a girl's voice with It's always recognizable humor, but loosing for the first time all hope of having a life and a happy ending. In 1926, Frida Kahlo painted her first self portrait. By then she was 19 years old and suffered the consequences of the accident that left her bedridden for a long time. During that time, Frida could only see the ceiling of her room and Her mother moved by this, designed a special easel for her, which would allow her to paint lying down. to one side of the easel She held up a mirror so that Frida could at least see herself. It was thus that Frida Kahlo began to portray herself. And this would be the painting there would begin her personal inquiry. The artist also portraits her sister Christina, with a personality so antagonistic to her own, submissive uneducated, and who would always feel overshadowed by Frida's revolutionary and transgressive impetus. between these differences and the fact that her father so obviously preferred Frida Christina would never have great respect or love for her older sister. She was the only one of the Kahlo sisters who left offspring, and Her children Isolda and Antonio lived with her and with Frida and Diego, in exchange for being the one who provided all the care for her sister, as well as being a housekeeper and performing household chores. Frida saw the legendary Diego Rivera for the first time in 1922, when Diego painted the mural creation at the Simon Bolivar amphitheater at the National preparatory school. She was one of the first women to study at the legendary San Ildefonso Campus. Watching Diego paint the huge fresco was a revelation. Frida was 15 years old and the muralist 36. We have to imagine the scene. While he painted, Diego spoke of Paris, of the avant-garde, of his friend Modigliani, of Picasso, Breton, of the Horrors of war. Diego hit her like a tidal wave, like a massive influence that she would never be able to remove from her own identity. So a strong is the encounter that Kahlo would say, I suffered too serious accidents in my life. One in which a bus knocked me down. And the other is Diego, Diego was by far the worst. The muralist's art would always be highly political and extremely controversial. He understood very early on that success of the revolution depends on the quality of its leaders. A positive circumstance in the Russian Revolution of Lenin and Trotsky. And a negative in the Mexican one where the great patriotism of Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata was not up to the intellectual standards that revolutionary leaders must possess. The mural in the arsenal is possibly the painting that best expresses his socialist and revolutionary sentiments. His unwavering wishes for the working class to obtain land and freedom. The central figure of the mural represents Frida Kahlo, from her emanates the revolution and the serving of arms to the people. Frida wears the garb of the Communist Party of Mexico, which she joined in 1928 and left the following year when Rivera broke with Stalin's communism, different in social and economic aspects from Lenin's somewhat softer communism The woman pictured on the right is a photographer, Tina Modotti and exiled photographer from the Spanish Civil War and a great friend of Kahlo The one responsible in fact, for introducing the couple David Alfaro Siqueiros, a muralist friend of Rivera and eternal fighter against existing power appears on the left. In 1929 Frida and Diego got married. His fighting spirit would be what would firmly attract Frida who would take inspiration from the figure of Rivera for the rest of her life. Beyond the great age difference that existed between them and their more than one failed marriage. Despite to continuous infidelities. Frida, idolized, and admire the painter whom she represented enormous, and not only as an allegory, Diego weighted 300 pounds Perhaps this is why they were also known as the elephant and the dove. She, regardless of their differences, would always capture him monumental. An enormous artist firmly planted before the mural with the palette and brushes in hand. In the style of typical Mexican colonial paintings. Frida writes an inscription inside this painting. "Here you see us. Frida Kahlo, together with my beloved husband, Diego Rivera, painted this portrait in the beautiful city of San Francisco, California for our friend, Mr. Albert Bender. And it was in April 1931." Her life between 1930 and 1934 was particularly intense. Frida and Diego or by this time communists, militants. They traveled to the US continuously. And it's there that Frida suffers her first abortion of the three she would have, in 1930. Two years later, she suffers a second, which she represents in her painting, Henry Ford Hospital. This would be the first painting in which Frida used a metal sheet as a support in the manner of Mexican altarpieces. Rivera's activity in the United States does not stop He travels to Detroit with a woman who is not his wife. But the endless infidelities had already began very shortly after the wedding. And then to New York, to the Rockefeller Center to paint an ambitious mural. Yes, it was great, but it was also a provocation. It portrays his abstemious patrons drinking with prostitutes and paints an immense face of Lenin Rockefeller Center owners tear down the mural. Frida by now, hates her long stays in New York and in one of them her romance with the photographer Nick Murray would begin. We will talk about this a little bit later. Frida feels relegated to the background. Unable to make art far from Mexico. Feeling drowned in the falsehood of the high society that idolizes her husband and with whom she has to feign demureness and modesty. The two characteristics that she despises most in women. to aggravate her situation, Her beloved mother Matilde Calderón dies when she's away, leaving Frida inconsolable with a strong personal charge. This collage shows the urgent need to let go of her loneliness, frustration, and jealousy. Back in Mexico. The Rivera family moved to the San Angel neighborhood in 1934 to two houses linked by a bridge at the height of the roof. That Rivera commission to the architect Juan O'Gorman It was a symbol of the autonomy and codependency of these creative geniuses. It is also unique for being one of the first functionalist architectural structures in Latin America. An example of the arrival of Le Corbusier's modernism. But incorporating the organic Mexican style in a very natural way. It was in this house that Frida Kahlo would finally establish herself as a painter of the caliber we now know But there the greatest betrayal of the master would occur. Frida had convinced Diego to hire her sister Christina Kahlo, as his secretary and her to pose for the work "knowledge, impurity." Where Diego portraits her nude and with flowers that symbolized feminity and purity This closeness lead to an offer that completely broke Frida, who immediately left the house-studio, feeling more betrayed by her sister, than by her husband, whom she completely mistrusted Anyway. That being said, when Frida informed Diego, that she would be willing to have an open relationship in which both could have lovers. He flatly refused since he did not feel great about sharing her, what cynicism! for her, this would be a way of taking revenge and giving Diego back a bit of what he made her suffer. If you visit Mexico City today, this house is an indisputable stop where you can find not only endless personal objects, letters, and videos of the artists, but also witness the space where Rivera died in 1957 before being transported to the Palace of Fine Arts for his funeral. 4. Feminism before feminism: Shortly after coming back to Mexico, Frida Kahlo read the following news in the newspaper. A man killed his wife and defended himself in court by saying that he had only given her "a few pecks" According to the police, there were 20 stab wounds the artists committed to the feminist cause Decided to denounce the atrocious event, showing in detail the bloody scene of the murder And two pigeons carrying a ribbon with the individual's words to make the incongruity clear. with blood that comes out beyond the confines of the frame. Frida seeks to break the physical separation between viewer and work so that we can feel engaged, not as accomplices to a murder that in those years was considered a crime of passion, a category that most probably save the criminal from any sentence. In addition to continually searching for her identity as a woman, she makes this effort to build her identity as a daughter, a granddaughter, painting her family in a kind of genealogical tree. She painted this picture shortly after Hitler banned interracial marriages at Nuremberg. Just as the Nazis use family trees to demonstrate the purity of their blood. Frida uses it to vindicate her mixed origins. In the center, we see her parents on their wedding day. Guillermo Kahlo, Frida's father was german of Jewish origin. So she paints her parental grandparents above the sea. Immigrants. Matilde, Frida's mother was Mexican with an Indian father and mother of Spanish origin Frida places them on the ground, which symbolizes Mexico. The artist is represented three times. The first in the form of an ovule and a sperm at the time of fertilization. The second as a fetus within her mother's womb. And the third as a girl in the courtyard of the blue house in Coyoacán where she lived practically all her life. We see then that the themes portrayed in the 1930s are mixed between her personal life and her political and social struggle. At a time when both Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera were Trostkysts both had followed the events of the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the rise of communism. And they saw in Leon Trotsky, a hero who embodied the ideals they followed. Stalin's rise to power in 1924, changed things. Trotsky was relegated to the background to end up being exiled in 1929, after some years of exile in different countries. Trostky and his wife Natalia Sedova arrived in Tampico on January ninth, 1937, with the help of Diego Rivera They managed to take refuge in their home in Coyoacán Frida had many partners throughout her life, but almost none of these relationships resulted in paintings as decisive as those that emerged from her love affair with the Russian revolutionary. The biographers of both conclude that this torrid romance, short but intense, changed both their lives. Trotsky fell in love with Frida, who despite her precarious health and problems with Diego, had an overwhelming vital force. Communism in Mexico was divided as it was in Russia, the relationship between Trotsky and David Alfaro Siqueiros is the best example. Siqueiros was one of the most important and avant-garde artists of his time. And although at first he frequented Trotsky, differences between them soon began to emerge. According to those who knew them, the painter from Chihuahua disagreed with the Russian because Siqueiros wanted the model proposed by Stalin to be carried out. In fact, it is rumored that in connection with these struggles, the Mexican began to communicate with spies In the USSR. David Alfaro's discomfort became so great than one occasion he met with some extreme groups and convinced them to go after Trotsky's head. Leon's secretary, faithful to Stalin , betrayed her boss, giving his itinerary to his attackers, allow Siqueiros to get close enough to try to assassinate him. Unfortunately, although on that occasion the Russian was lucky, on August 20, 1940, a hired assasin commissioned by Stalin mercilessly ended the life of the great Leon Trotsky. And although there is no evidence, it is said that when Siqueiros learned of the murder, he simply smiled. Of all these revolutionary artists of his time, Siqueiros would be one of those who did not fight only with brushes. Although his revolutionary and social soul was reflected in his pictorial work. It is well-known that Frida had several affairs in her life with men and women alike, but few as relevant for her as Nick Murray, Nicolas Murray a Hungarian born in 1892 move to New York in 1913, fleeing the war in Europe. He first worked as a printer, but soon opened a studio in Greenwich Village where he took portraits, specialty that soon led him to an outstanding artistic degree. He made a career in the most prestigious fashion magazines at the time, such as Harper's Bazaar, Vanity Fair Vogue, The New York Times. But of the documentary series he did, Frida's is surely one of the best. Frida gave him one of the most confusing, mementos ever when he had to return to New York. "Nick", She scrawled on a piece of paper. "I love you like I would love an angel. You're a lilly in the valley of love I will never forget You. Never, Never. You are my whole life. I hope you will never forget this." Opposite to her words, however, was a sketch of a portrait of her and Diego. There's also a note at the bottom reading, "please come to Mexico as you promised me." She seals it with a red keys writing. "This is especially for the back of your neck." When Frida Arrived in New York. It was Nick who took those immortal portraits. The photographs dating from 1937 to 1946, explore Murray's unique perspective as his friend, lover and confident. Murray's photographs bring to light Kahlo's deep interests in her Mexican heritage. The romance had started in 1931, after Murray divorced his second wife. And shortly after Kahlo's marriage to Mexican muralist Diego Rivera. It survived Murray's third marriage, and Kahlo's divorce and remarriage to Rivera, finally ending in 1941. They will remain good friends until Frida's death in 1954. As if it were an optical illusion, the painter unfolds in this work showing an image of the complex duality of her person, the married Frida, and a single Frida co-exist in the same time and space in which past and present converge in a dream world. The psychological part and the symbolism take on a great importance in all of Kahlo's work. "Las dos Fridas" is a double self-portrait in which two women share the same seat And their duplicated faces are expressionless, although the threatening clouds are a reflection of the physical and emotional pain suffered by the artist. Frida is divided and grieving, a single Frida dressed in white European style lace and connected to her German origins. And a Frida who is married to Diego in a colorful Tehuano dress the spitting image of how he wanted to see her. So purely Mexican, the symbolic elements of the exchange of blood, an artery from heart-to-heart is the nourishment of energy between one and the other. And the artist is trying to reconcile her multiple identities in search of balance. In What the water has given me. Kahlo does not consider portraying her face to express her identity. The sum of the elements is enough to define her and to evoke the person she is at this moment of her life. In this aquatic world, floating We see her roots, flowers, corpses, birds and people she knows. A skyscraper that rises from a volcano, evoking her stay in New York and her native Mexico united. The water has given her good and bad, past, present, and future. Frida would end up giving this painting to her lover, Nick Murray as payment for debt of $400 USD So strong is this violent, dreamy messaging her art that even the surrealists known and remember for being one of the most match artistic groups, wanted to see Frida as one of their own, but she was always reluctant. Nothing of what she represented on our Canvas has felt like a dream. In fact, they were more real than reality. She herself would say, I didn't know I was surreal until Andrea Britain arrived in Mexico and told me. But entering the art world is also entering the public visual. And the LEA Frida Kahlo created herself as a character with her way of dressing with indigenous closings, her exotic pets, her refusal to plug eyebrows and mustache with this already be a marketing decision. To say free to also found a creative kindred spirit in Nick who didn't have any of the pretension of Andrea Britannia history boys club. You have no idea to ******* is people are shear load nick, in 1939. They make me vomit. They are so **** intellectual and rotten that I can just tell them anymore. It is really too much for my character. I rather seat and sell tortillas and to have anything to do with these artistic beaches in Paris, to **** with everything concerning Britain and all these lousy place. I want to go back to you. I miss every moment of your being, your voice, your eyes, your hands, your beautiful mouth, your left, so clear and honest. You. I love you. I am so happy to think I love you too. Thank you. Wait for me that you love me. Here we see the two sides of the coin. Fetus possessive hand over her two loves with Nick when they were still lovers. And in that fateful session in 1941, when she asks more right, to portrait her renewables with Diego Rivera, a final declaration that the affair was over. Although Keller was polygamous and bisexual, her promiscuous husband's infidelities made to fight in an everyday occurrence was also documented in the artist's painting. Although the open relationship between Diego and Frieda had survived other lover first, it is finally broken when Frida discovers the Romans of Diego, her sister christina. She has changed her traditional 21, uh, clothing and other of the things that her husband loved to dress in a Man suits that is enormous. So it's probably Diego's the dirt floor and the yellow chair she's sitting on. Our full of his trends have heard that seem to have a life of their own and make us visually uncomfortable because they don't respect the perspective of the painting. Free that produces dozens of paintings after the divorce but cannot sell them. The boys, by the way, which he asked for after falling in love with the beautiful American actress Paulette got their food or falls into depression and alcohol, and confesses to her friend and actress Dolores, that are real. Diego has made me suffer so much that I cannot easily forgive him, but I still love him more than male life. He knows it well. And that's why he sticks around. Freedom Diego were married on December eighth, 1940, after Trotsky's assassination. Your second marriage to Rivera, Frida imposes rules. There will be no sex, they will be accomplices and friends. It is clear that Diego needed freed it as much as freedom needed him to represent in so much pain. We see in a self portrait with monkeys or respect without Diego, without communism, without an accident or abortions, without lovers and Without Tears. Maybe with a little plot. She painted when she is 36 and appears, say, mature and serene woman. The monkeys of which she had many as pets in her life, surround her affectionately. She herself would confess. So the monkey is represented in her imagination that children should never have establishing a strong emotional bond with them. Over a 150 known works, a third are self-portraits. In fact, Kayla stated on more than one occasion, I paint self-portraits because I am alone a lot. I paint myself because I am the one I know best. However, the vast majority of her self-portraits would be surrounded by suffering. Since that terrible bus accident in 1925, she had at least 32 operations, hospitalizations, and extreme pain. We're continuous. She had to put on all kinds of courses and gadgets to be able to walk and lead a normal life. But the only thing that help cure her pain was art. This self portrait explains very clearly what was happening with her body. Freedom, Morgan's her broken spine. Also our presentation of loss, familiarity, and only a painful metal crusade keeps her mother-in-law theorem. She has nails all over her body. And she endures them with resignation and stoicism, bringing out beauty where there can be none. Her condition as a woman was a main branch of her presentations parallel to everything else that happened around her. Breaking taboos on the body and female sexuality. She always saw with her work to get away from what a woman of her time could do. And she was harsh, excessive, violent, active. For this reason. She's kind of a symbol of feminism in art. 5. Frida, the person behind the icon: By now, we know freedom Diego felt as one and the same. And their work shows it. The famous dream of a Sunday afternoon in the ELA medicine trial was made at the initiative of the architect Carlos Obregon Santa Cecilia. Its original location was the resize room of the hotel, which was located in front of the element. Later it was transferred to the hotel lobby where it was exhibited until the building was so much by the 1850s Mexico City earthquake. The mural was rescued in 1986 and moved to its current location, located at the solidarity square. Pays built after the demolition of the remains of the radius hotel, which was totally destroyed during the earthquake. The mural represents the artist, her portrait himself as a child walking in the element that's in drought, accompanied by more than a 100 emblematic characters from 4 thousand years of Mexican history. The central figure is like a thing with a feather is told that a box gets up on the arm of her sit with a loop episodic here creator. And on the other hand, Diego David. Behind Diego Frida Kahlo holds the Ying and Yang symbol in her hand and she embraces Diego in a motherly embrace. Among the people portrait, we see the notorious female figures of the daughter and wife of Porfirio. The left sector illustrates a conquest, the colonial era, independence, the North American invasion, and the European intervention. Events in which the elements are central, had an important participation as a stage. Got this sort of quinine is it accrues Emperor Maximilian with his wife Carlota, and Benito Juarez, among others, appear. The Right Sector. It bulks the working class movements, the Popular Struggle and the revolution. In this sector appears. Porfirio Diaz, Francisco Madero, Emiliano Zapata, Jakarta, Florida's Meghan, and several others. Impossible to imagine Diego without freedom. Impossible also to imagine freedoms, pictorial production without her son Diego. Free to calluses work is so closely linked to her personal life. It could be said that Freedoms paintings are subject and object. In fact, we can see how in many of her self-portrait terror presentations, she represents herself as incapable of changing her own destiny, only exploring her identity as if she were watching a play where her own life is staged. For this painting that is both herself and a representation of others. Her friend Hassan Domingo olivine, lantern, Sigmund Freud's book, Moses and the monotheistic religion, and ask her to make a painting with her interpretation. The author was enthusiastic batter reading. And in just three months, she made this strange work, fruits book reviews, the figure of Moses saying that he was not a Jew but belonged to an addiction family and established the origin of monotheism also in Egyptian culture. Hence, the importance of images of Egyptian gods and figures such as academic time and effort tidy. However, free to soon abandons the reference to the book, to turn to her own personal experience and complete the painting with them. The painting can be divided into three vertical sections on the two sides. In the upper part, the cuts are represented in the center are the great thinkers in liters. And below the methods are located. In the upper half of the work appears the sun, origin of life, essential engine for the growth of plants. God, among the Aztec and Inca and Egyptian cultures, in the center, a baby is still in the womb. This uterus is surrounded by ovules and allusion to the fertilization and birth of a new Moses. These type of almost religious representation is repeated in the last years of her life. For Diego free days, his son, she never had, her other half had thought. For Diego Frida is a young revolutionary who distributes weapons from the arsenal. The teacher, the painter who observes the world. The mother who protects him, knows the secret of Yin and Yang. In many of her pictorial works, we see the magic, the myth, and the unconscious that is breathe it in Mexico. Both share Rivera always so to show an exalted nationalism and art that express the Mexican national affirmation. According to the artist herself, she used the symbolism of colors for her work. Green is warm, good, light. Brown is leaf that goes to the ground. Yellow is madness. Their illness, but also a bit of the sun, enjoy cobalt blue. Electricity, love, impurity, black, nothing is black. Green leaves or sadness and science. Greenish yellow is madness and mystery. Dark green, the color of good deals and bad advertisements. Navy blue is distance. Although tenderness can also be that color. In 1951, Dr. Farrell performed a series of seven operations of freedom spine, leaving her admitted in the hospital in Mexico City for nine months. In November of that year, Frieda was finally well enough to paint. First painting, a self portrait of her life was dedicated to Dr. Farrell. The fact that she credited to doctor for saving her life might explain why this self portrait was made as an exporter, as an altarpiece. In the painting, The Doctor appears in the place that assaying would normally occupy. And color appears as the unfortunate victim who has been saved. Frida confined to a wheelchair, paints with her own blog using her heart as a pallet. Perhaps telling us that she painted this portrait from the bottom of her heart. She may have taken the idea for this painting from Mongolia. In later years, painted and altarpieces tells cells portrait entitled Goya, attended by a doctor. In the Box he included an inscription thanking the doctor for saving his life. The sales records for a color work at auction is eight millions, set in 2016 by two units in the forest. Meanwhile, there were two works by the Mexican painter up for auction at Christie's in 2019, that grows nearly 9 million. Portrait of a woman in white was sold to a private buyer in New York for 5.8 million. Well, basket with flowers was sold for 3.1 million. Cal the economy was the first work by a Latin American female artists to break the million-dollar barrier at the time of its sale, closing at $1.4 million at auction. Unfortunately, and regardless of Dr. Florio's constant efforts feed and never found relief and knew that the end was near. Freed. His last public appearance was on Friday, July the second, 1954 from a wheelchair pushed by Diego Rivera. Frida holes erased feast. With her other hand, she holds a banner for peace. The painter is in the mess of a swarm of hundreds of people who are marching in favor of the watermelon people and against the military coup that overthrew precedent. Hacker bar bends, ten days later, bedridden with one leg amputated and with this tabbing painting, her spine, that does not stop. She gives Diego Rivera the ring he had bought for her in the 25th wedding anniversary. She gave it to him because she believed the departure was imminent. She dies on July 13th, 1954. After her death, Diego decided to form a trust so that her house, the famous Blue House, could become a museum. A small fountain of memory of who was a love of his life as the poet, Carlos PDCA or to be in charge of the geography. For this is dresses, lectures, books, corsets, and some medications were then confined to bathroom that remains sealed for a long time. The muralists stipulated in the trust that this makes ship warehouse could only be opened 15 years after the painters death. Although in reality, it was much more than that. Until 2004, the opening of the famous bathroom, which would cause to coincide with the centenary of the Blue House. Discovered more than a 100 unknown drawings by the painter, alongside many others by Diego Rivera. Photographs, letters, Diego sacks of preserving history in secret for so long allows us to continue finding pieces to understand the relationship today develop into the last painting painted by Frida Kahlo could be a response to the fantasy some that grain in Spain since the Civil War, and especially to the cry of long leaf death of the founder of religion has Simeon astray. But beyond the political interpretation, it is also a message of hope despite her deteriorating health. The title of this work is a tribute to life painted only eight days before her death. There is this hypothesis that this painting was a work done in an earlier period, but that freedom in her last days of life wrote this phrase, be Velveeta on the watermelons in the painting. This work that we can see today in the blue house was nominated in 2018 to become one of the ten universal paintings of Mexico. One of 72 works that the Ministry of Culture considers most representative of the rich pictorial heritage of the country. Frida Kahlo died at the age of 47. The National Institute of Fine Arts was preparing a retrospective exhibition for her. As a national trivial. We all know that most women arches have not gone down in history as they should. But Frieda was exception to this rule. Today. She's one of the most famous artists in the world. Just tilt to rescue the roots of Mexican popular art. Me, her art and her attitude, political and social struggle and style that is so characteristic today. It is important to remember that beyond the icon invented around her, freed existed as a person. Having individual identity and carefree attitude contributed to the representation of women in an environment dominated by men. Using her art as they mean for change and opinion. Thank you very much for joining me again in this art history session. Remember you can make any question through the platform and see you next time. 6. A project for self-discovery in Kahlo's style: Frida Kahlo was a weakness of exciting times in Mexican history. She was wholeheartedly part of the revolution and the Renaissance of the country in the 20th century. Beyond that, her art was extremely personal. In today's project, I invite you to evaluate your own creative practice. Awaken your curiosity. Do you think art can express personal identity and universal values all at once? Answer to questions that you'll find below and share them as a class project. I'll be happy to review them, comment in them, and answer any questions that may arise. Thank you very much for joining this art history lesson. If you're enjoying this class, please share a comment or share review. It will be extremely great. See you next time.